Clinton left things unresolved

3:52 PM,
Feb. 22, 2013

Written by

Chris Dixon
FROM THE LEFT

While it is fashionable on the left to blame the second Iraq war entirely on President George W. Bush, I've always considered it to be more a failure of the Clinton administration. Bush pulled the trigger, but Clinton game him the ammunition. This same unconventional view has led me to provide nearly unqualified support for President Obama's drone strikes - an equally unfashionable position on the left.

I don't hold these opinions just to be contrary. If the left is to serve as a bulwark against future, unnecessary wars, we must learn the lessons of our past.